Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

The aim is to introduce students to the safety of people, society as a whole and ensure the basic needs of economic development are determined by the source and conditions stemming from the environment. The environment is becoming an integral part of safety and this part is defined as an environmental safety.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

E-learning

Další požadavky na studenta

To make semester report on the specified topic in the prescribed treatment.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1.Environment and components of the environment - air, surface water, groundwater, geological environment, biosphere. Transmission of materials and energy in the environment. Environment as a source of raw materials.
2.The importance of the environment for human, environmental services: water resources, food security, renewable energy, healthy air, other environmental functions important for quality of life.
3.Ecological requirements of in the environment, biodiversity and its importance for ensuring stability of the environment and environmental services. The risks of introduced species, epidemics and epidemic.
4.Urban and work environment as a specific case of the environment; sources of threats to health and safety. The impacts of contamination of air, noise and light pollution in the environment to humans.
5. Direct safety threats resulting from the environment: floods and their influencing the status of environment, climate change and its meteorological effects, droughts and vegetation fires.
6.Threats to water resources drought and contamination; sources of water contamination anthropogenic origin; impacts of water contamination.
7.Food security and the environment. Degradation and loss of arable land, contamination of the food chain, persistent pollutants in the environment
8.Chemical accidents as a source of environmental contamination
9.The possibility of terrorist attacks on the environment (environmentally oriented terrorism)
10.Waves of migration caused by environmental changes and disasters and their risks. Conflicts of environmental origin.
11.Linking safety management systems and the environment at the enterprise level, the community and the state.
12.Tools to ensure environmental safety in the context of sustainable development and long-term safety of the population. International environmental safety programs within UNEP, ENECE, OECD and NATO.